Billy Joel Quotes
I've lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
Billy Joel
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If God wants to take my left arm, that's OK, as long as I can walk and play with my kids. I'm a lot improved. I was worse than this after the accident.
Manute Bol
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
P. T. Barnum
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I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
Barbara Palvin
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You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals.
Gail Collins
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I had to let my ego go a long time ago.
Sally Field
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The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.
Vince Cable
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Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technology, then you say: why do we tell the story the way we do? It becomes, actually, a far more meaningful and important story in its retelling than in the kind of unsophisticated way we've done it for, I think, too long.
Malcolm Gladwell
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
Calvin Coolidge
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
E. M. Forster
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The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.
Larry Page
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My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.
Vera Wang
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Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.
Quvenzhane Wallis
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Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform.
Marc Almond
Soft Cell
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To protest, I stood in the place of a waste receptacle and opened my mouth. That's how I lost my virginity *laughs*
Thomas Edward Yorke
Atoms for Peace
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I haven't gotten a lot of feedback about, 'Oh, you helped me in this way.' But on social media, people are like, 'Thank you for your positive posts,' or 'It's fun to see you grow and your character. I feel like I'm growing with you.'
Taylour Paige
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We want to grow old together, and even when we won't have fame, success, fans, we know we will still be sticking to each other.
Amruta Khanvilkar
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Speaking with kindness creates confidence, thinking with kindness creates profoundness, giving with kindness creates love.
Lao Tzu
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I've lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
Billy Joel